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Individual doing the splits on a fallen log on the beach with text "The necessity of being flexy"

The Necessity of Being Flexy

Flexibility plays a large part in living your best life, and an even larger part in living your best pole life. It improves range of motion, reduces risk of injury, improves posture, and makes your pole tricks look bomb. The…

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Pole dance leans against her back foot while doing the front splits on the floor.

I DREAM OF JADES PART 2

So, you’ve oohd and ahhd over the jade split queens of the pole community and now you are wondering, “how can I make my jade look like that?!” I have good news for you and that is that you are…

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Pole dancer does an Allegra split variation

I DREAM OF JADES PART 1

Ah, the elusive flat jade. The jade split is one of the first moves a dance is able to learn after inverting. What makes a jade the magical move that it can be is the style and flexibility behind it.…

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Dancer demonstrates a floor jade with text: Tips to improve your floor jade by Erica Gabrielle

Tips to Improve Your Floor Jade

Although the Jade Split (a.k.a. Jamilla) has been around so long it’s considered old school, it’s pole-less counterpart has been in the spotlight... and for good reason! It’s a totally photo-worthy, show-stopping way to show off your bendy legs (and…

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Acro person executes a chest stand in an outdoor park.

Back and Shoulder Flexibility

Flexibility has always been a struggle for me. When I first began training in pole, I was all about power and strength moves. I have always enjoyed lifting weights, and after years of doing that and only sporadically stretching, I…

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Paige and Haley being interviewed at PoleCon.

Interview with Paige and Haley!

123TV and 123poling.com, the best resource for online pole training for students and instructors, interviews Paige Olsen and Haley Pafford! Paige and Haley are both competing this weekend at the International Pole Sport Federation World Pole Sports Competition in London.…

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Marlo Fisken being interviewed at PoleCon 2015.

Interview with Marlo Fisken

123TV and 123poling.com, the best resource for online pole training for students and instructors, interviews Marlo Fisken from Flow Movement® Marlo conducted three workshops at #polecon2015 that focused on fluidity. She brings 15 years of dance experience to her poling…

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Why I Contort

I recently completed a two year international tour with the spiegeltent show Limbo, performing 370 shows for over 100,000 people. Exiting the tent with Clover the Beagle in tow—tired, elated and wafting of Ben Gay/Deep Heat—there are two questions I’m…

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